Summoners War: Only I Summoned Divine Beasts - Chapter 1386

Capítulo 1386: Karma

Nathan didn’t know the reason, but he suddenly felt something bad. There was an emptiness in his heart for some reason.

“What… is going on?” Nathan looked around.

“Master.” Mae’s expression turned solemn. “Your karma flickered just now.”

“Flickered? Is that bad?” Bella panicked. She didn’t want to use this anymore, thinking it was harming Nathan.

Mae looked down, contemplating. “Let me sort everything in order first. First of all, do you know that your karma has increased even further, Master?”

“Is that so?” Nathan tilted his head. “I don’t know the value of my karma.”

“Well, the amount is not really big, but it may be just an illusion where actually the value of your karma is so big that the amount that increases doesn’t look that big.

“As you know, there is good karma and bad karma. Good karma stems from positive, selfless actions and intentions, leading to happiness. Meanwhile, bad karma arises from negative, harmful deeds, causing suffering.

“Killing people, even if it’s your enemy, will also bring bad karma. However, if your enemy is an evil person, you will get good karma as well. This good karma will outweigh the bad karma, which results in overall positive karma.

“You may not notice it, but you should have gotten a karma that no one has ever received in this life. For example, your cloud-repelling devices have helped so many people. The Gratzel continent alone might have saved over 100 million people across all four nations. On this continent, you have saved even more people.

“The amount of good karma you have accumulated is something that not many can get, yet for some reason, your karma only increases a bit. This shows how much karma you have. I can’t completely calculate the value, but I hope the analogy makes it clear.”

Nathan smiled wryly. He definitely didn’t have that intention, but it looked like he indeed had saved countless people. It wasn’t just the cloud-repelling device. The magic weapons also helped numerous people.

That magic weapon could also be used as a murder weapon, which might give him bad karma. But overall, the good outweighed the bad.

Nathan nodded in understanding. “What about the flicker? For a moment, I felt empty.”

Mae paused for a moment. “I think I have heard my teacher mention this kind of phenomenon before.”

“And that is?”

“Ending the karma connection. As you already know, this karma is like a connection between you and the person you are related to.

“If that person does a bad thing, that will result in your bad karma if you end up getting involved in that person’s bad action.

“To avoid more karma, people often want to end the karma between them and the other party. Usually, the way to sever the karma between them is to personally end it.

“For example, if you have a debt and gratitude, you have to help that person and make it even before severing your relationship, which will result in severing your karma ties with that person.

“However, that kind of thing won’t make your karma flicker. My teacher mentioned there was one more way to do it. It was through forcefully severing that karma.

“There are various methods. You may use curses or even other magical abilities. The sudden severing will cause the karma to be unstable because they were supposed to get even first before ending the ties.”

Nathan thought for a moment. “So, someone forcefully severing ties with me?”

“Most likely. And to cause it to be so unstable that it flickered… it should be someone who has a close relationship with you.”

Nathan raised his head, contemplating. “Who would do such a thing? I believe Selena and the others. The people close to me are not that many. Someone like Elder Thompson has that possibility. Or maybe it’s someone from this continent as well.”

“Well, I am not entirely sure because your karma is too much for me to read.” Mae smiled apologetically.

Nathan nodded with a solemn face. “Well, it can’t be helped. It’s not like I can go back to Gratzel to check what’s going on either, so I can only continue forward here and defeat the Death Society and return as fast as possible.”

“That’s true. However, with what happened earlier, I think I can finally understand the price you have to pay for the soul contract.”

“Mhmm?” Nathan raised his head.

“Up to this point, we have established that karma will play a part in your soul contract. And from what we’ve learned from both continents, you will accumulate karma in your life. After reaching a certain point and triggering the activation, you will receive an innate ability.”

Mae didn’t say directly the trigger was so that Bella wouldn’t misunderstand the meaning of death. However, death was indeed the trigger for the innate ability.

In fact, she could explain why it was the trigger. The karma they accumulated in this life would be used to arrange their fate in the next life. People with good karma might become wealthy merchants or sons of nobles in their next life. But because ‘death’ had been triggered. But they were still alive, so the arranged fate had to take another form, and that was innate ability.

The people on this continent sacrificed their lives and offered their karma to other people, which would give them the ‘Heavenly Abilities.’

Mae continued, “If you use your blood, the condition of your body still applies. If you lose so much blood that another person’s blood has to be transferred to you, this might affect your karma. That’s why you are still not allowed to do it so many times during a short period, but if you adhere to this condition, there shouldn’t be any problem with your body.

“Meanwhile, the karma shouldn’t be much of a problem on your part. I don’t know why your karma is so huge, but it won’t affect you if you use it to help others.

“Still, there is a condition. This karma is used for others, meaning that there will be ties between you and the person you help.

“As such, the people who receive your soul contract have to swear that they will do good things in life so that bad karma won’t accumulate in your body, thus affecting your body.

“That’s why only giving it to the people you can trust, especially your women, is better than giving it to random people.

“Of course, you should continue doing good deeds, Master. But looking at your progress, it should be fine. Giving the manuals from this continent to the people on Gratzel will also bring you good karma, not accounting for the printing machine or other things.

“If you continue to do good things, I will ignore the bad thing as long as it’s not too much. I’m not asking you to be a hero or anything. I just don’t want you to be a bad person.”